Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes: > Currently, Debian Policy is silent on when it's appropriate to use a > native package, but there may be a project consensus aganist using > native packages when the software has an existence outside of Debian. Personally I don't think Debian policy should be concerned with what happens outside Debian. As long as a given process serves the users and contributors of/to Debian well, that seems sufficient to me. I understand that others disagree, particularly on how much we should consider the needs of derivative distributions. > Even if that consensus does not exist, there is probably consensus > that native packages are a poor match for large packages (because of > the inefficiency of making small updates to the packaging of native > packages), and there may be other cases where we can give stronger > guidance. That seems more like something that could be documented in devref as a best practice, rather than something needing normative language.
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